Families from the South Shore and Brandon areas will join more than 1,000 other participants for a re-enactment of pre-1840 American life at the 38{+t}{+h} Alafia River Rendezvous today toJan. 24 at the Florida Frontiermen's Homeland site, south of Bartow at the end of Azalea Street. ...more

January 14, 2009

First lady Laura Bush has agreed to write a memoir with one of the world's oldest publishing houses, Scribner. Publication for the book, currently untitled, is scheduled for 2010. ...more

January 5, 2009

Line has replicas of antiques from the 500-year-old family estate. ...more

September 10, 2008

Charles, the 9th Earl Spencer, hawks his line of furniture at Livingston Furniture in Tampa. ...more

September 8, 2008

The 13th Annual Fort Dade Mountain Man Rendezvous, an educational and family-fun look at 1800s life, continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Sunday at Withlacoochee River Park, 12449 Withlacoochee Blvd., Dade City. Experience a living history village with lessons about Florida's early settlers; knife and tomahawk throwing, bow making; primitive arts, crafts and campsites; music; and vendors selling food, handmade clothing and jewelry, leather items, animal pelts, black powder supplies and cooking utensils. Cost is $2 for adults or $5 per carload; children 12 and younger are admitted free. ...more

February 2, 2008

Last week, Highlands County lost a piece of its past. It was the inexorable march of time that touches each one of us living, breathing souls. But when Lonnie Curl, Robert Allen Baker and Ray T. Graddy departed from life, they took with them a part of Highlands County that was young, and in some minds –– still pristine. Curl was a former Sebring police chief. So was Baker. Graddy was a postmaster. They were all longtime county residents and had been active in public service. They helped shape the county's destiny in visible and invisible ways. They were the area's living history. Their lives also interspersed. All three graduated from Sebring High School. Graddy and Curl both received the Most Valuable Man award for their contributions to the Sebring Fire Department. ...more

November 20, 2007